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Sat 14 Feb, 2004 06:28 am
George Bush and the Treacherous Country
By Steve Erickson
LA Weekly
Quote:Bush has based his view of leadership on his sense that God has chosen him for this moment. To doubt himself is to doubt God. For all the Bush administration's efforts four months ago to distance itself from the evangelical Army general who is its deputy undersecretary of defense, William Boykin's conviction that ours is "an army of God, in the house of God," and that George Bush is in the White House "because God put him there," is in no way at odds with either the president's conduct of the office or the convictions of the president's bedrock followers.
*This is a lengthy piece but I found it well worth my time reading it. It puts what has been and is going on in quite a stark reality, in my view.
And that, precisely, is what scares the hell out of me about Bush.
I don't know which is more worrying, the mental state of the man who said it, or that of the people who believe it.
Although, I am encouraged that the "smirking chimp" image has more currency.